South Africa

South Africans Protest Mining, Block Meeting

April 23, 2016 Sheila Berry, www.saveourwilderness.org Resist! Coal Mining, Protests, South Africa

By Sheila Berry for Save Our Wilderness - This morning an angry but well-behaved crowd of well over a thousand Fuleni residents forced the Regional Mining Development Environmental Committee (RMDEC) to abort their site visit to Fuleni for Ibutho Coal’s proposed open cast mine on the boundary of the iMfolozi Wilderness Area. The site visit would have familiarised RMDEC with the area before the meeting tomorrow, at 10h30, at Enseleni Nature Reserve, KZN, to hear submissions from I&APs and their lawyers to substantiate their comments and objections to the Fuleni mine.

Liberation And Ethics. Is There A Connection?

April 16, 2016 www.polity.org.za Resist! Liberation, South Africa

By Raymond Suttner for Polity - It is no exaggeration to suggest that the legitimacy not only of President Jacob Zuma and the ANC, but also the notion of the liberation struggle itself is in shreds. For some of us, it was unthinkable that such an alliance of forces could degenerate into a moneymaking, lawless and violent operation represented by people who were prepared to trample on the values that we understood the movement to embody. Certainly, this did not happen overnight. The process leading to the present state of affairs has been long in the making.

BRICS Under Attack: Empire’s Destabilizing Hand Reaches Into South Africa

April 14, 2016 Eric Draitser, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! BRIC, South Africa

By Eric Draitser for Mint Press News - NEW YORK — (Analysis) Major protests have gripped South Africa in recent months as political forces have emerged to give voice to a growing discontent with the government and ruling party. Beneath the surface of these demonstrations organized around legitimate grievances, however, there’s an undercurrent of political manipulation. South Africa and its ruling African National Congress (ANC) party have been targeted for destabilization due to the country’s burgeoning relationship with China and other non-Western nations, most obviously typified by South Africa’s inclusion in BRICS...

The Fall Of Cecil Rhodes’ Statue At Cape Town University

December 22, 2015 Alan Gilbert and Eve Fairbanks, www.democratic-individuality.blogspot.comwww.theguardian.com Resist! Black Lives Matter (BLM), History, South Africa

By Alan Gilbert for Democratic Individuality and Eve Fairbanks for The Guardian - Sage Bard Gilbert ran across this intense column from the Guardian about young South Africans initiating and recently winning after many months the taking down of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town. Here is the society where the black and colored majority was oppressed by apartheid – the Boers modeling themselves on Nazis, the two-bit colonialism of the pompous and abject Rhodes. also celebrated by Hitler – and where a victorious movement, with negotiations, organized surprisingly a peaceful transition to decency.

South Africa: The Meaning Of The #FeesMustFall Movement

October 27, 2015 Ben Morken, www.marxist.com Resist! #FeesMustFall, South Africa, Student Protests, Tuition

By Ben Morken for In Defense of Marxism - On Friday, 23 October, South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, announced that there will be no increases to student university fees for next year. This was a clear attempt by the government to contain a movement which has became too big to control. This is evident from last Friday’s events. While Zuma was meeting with vice-chancellors and academics, students were kept on the south lawns of the Union Buildings in the scorching sun. Earlier, the #FeesMustFall movement had refused to meet with the president behind closed doors. This is a clear indication of the mistrust which the movement has for the government and of those in power.

South African Student Protests

October 26, 2015 Patrick Bond, www.telesurtv.net Resist! South Africa, Student Protests, Tuition

By Patrick Bond for Tele Surv TV - Students fought back against proposed tuition hikes – and won. The university students have been furious, as their cry “Fees must fall!” rang out on campuses and sites of political power across this society. An historic victory over South African neoliberalism was just won through the most intense three-week burst of activist mobilization since liberation from apartheid in 1994. The liberation movement rulers in the African National Congress (ANC) have faced unprecedented socio-economic pressure and unrest.

South African Students Win Freeze On Tuition Increases

October 24, 2015 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Resist! South Africa, Student Protests, Tuition

By Sarah Lazare for Common Dreams - Facing the largest student uprisings since South Africans toppled apartheid, President Jacob Zuma pledged Friday to halt tuition fee increases in the year 2016—prompting declarations of victory, as well as calls to continue the mass mobilizations until free education is won for all. "A famous victory won by the hard struggle of students. We are all humbled," Salim Vally, associate professor of education and director of the Center for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg, told Common Dreams. "The determination and resoluteness of the students forced the hand of government. This was clear to many even before the sun rose this morning."

Whites Form Human Shield Protecting Black Protesters from Police in SA

October 23, 2015 Staff, www.caribflame.com Resist! South Africa, Student Protests, Tuition

By Staff of EUR Web - *A group of white students in South Africa formed a human shield to protect black student demonstrators from police officers that had previously used force against the predominantly black crowd protesting rising university fees. According to enca.com, protests under the #FeesMustFall movement are intensifying across the country as students continue their demand for no increase in college fees. Police had used force on Monday afternoon, when students from Rhodes University went to support their peers at the Eastcape Midlands College (EMC), according to Rhodes’ independent publication, Activate.

South African Students Shut Down Schools; Demand Free Education

October 23, 2015 Ben Morken, www.caribflame.com Resist! South Africa, Student Protests, Tuition

By Ben Morken for In Defense of Marxism - Wednesday’s events marked a qualitative change in the entire situation.It represents the early winds which precede a coming hurricane which is on course to make a direct hit. The immediate catalyst for the protests is the recently announced increase in university fees, and more generally the exorbitant cost of higher education, which exclude the poor and mostly black students from the higher education system. The scenes which played themselves out on Wednesday were unprecedented for an entire generation of students.

South Africa Universities Close Amid Student Fee Protests

October 20, 2015 Staff, www.bbc.com Resist! South Africa, Student Protests, Tuition

By Staff of BBC News - Protests over fee increases have forced the suspension of teaching at three of South Africa's top universities. Protests have spread from Johannesburg's Wits University, closed last week after thousands demonstrated on campus, to the universities of Rhodes and Cape Town (UCT). Wits University agreed to suspend a 10.5% tuition fee increase on Friday, pending negotiations with students. Protesters argue that poorer, mainly black students would be worst affected. A statement from Wits University said that a decline in state subsidy over the years, combined with inflationary pressures, were behind the fee increases in recent years.

Marikana Massacre: Untold Story Of Strike Leader Who Died

August 14, 2015 Nick Davies, www.theguardian.com Resist! police brutality, South Africa, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Nick Davies in The Guardian - On 16 August 2012, South African police opened fire on a large crowd of men who had walked out on strike from a platinum mine at Marikana, about 80 miles north of Johannesburg. They shot down 112 of them, killing 34. In any country, this would have been a traumatic moment. For South Africa, it was a special kind of nightmare, since it revived images of massacres by the state in the old apartheid era, with one brutal difference – this time it was predominantly black policemen, with black senior officers working for black politicians, who were doing the shooting. In response, President Jacob Zuma appointed a commission of inquiry, chaired by a retired judge, Ian Farlam, which eventually sat in public for a total of 293 days, hearing evidence from miners, their bosses and the police, and reviewing video, audio and paper records of the shooting and of the seven-day strike that preceded it.

Miners Shot Down: Blood On Whose Hands?

November 17, 2014 Tom Gardner, www.thinkafricapress.com Educate! Labor Rights, Mining, police brutality, South Africa

Interviewed by Rehad Desai in his new documentary, Miners Shot Down, Marinovich’s words form part of a forensic case built up over the course of the film that forcefully indicts the police, the government and the Lonmin mining company for their respective roles in the most deadly display of state violence witnessed in post-apartheid South Africa. It may have been rank-and-file police officers pulling the triggers, but, Desai’s film concludes, it is those at the top – “those who pulled the strings” – who bear greatest responsibility. “Heads need to roll at a very high level,” agues Ronnie Kasrils, a former minister for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and outspoken critic of President Jacob Zuma’s government. To date, not one policeman has been charged for what took place at Marikana, victims have been both blamed and put on trial, and suspicions of a cover-up stubbornly linger.

South Africa Has Largest Protest Since Apartheid For Gaza

August 13, 2014 Shafiq Morton, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Israel, Palestine, Solidarity, South Africa

Tens of thousands of South Africans marched in the capital city, Cape Town, outside the parliamentary building, to protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza and to urge their government to take diplomatic action. Protesters also called on the South African government to boycott Israel, and to expel the Israeli ambassador from the southern most African country's shores. A number of well-known personalities attended the march, including Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former anti-apartheid hero Ahmed Kathrada and Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela. Archbishop Desmond Tutu offered a prayer. Jews are not the enemy, they are God's children but Zionism is a question that calls for justice, Tutu told the gathering. South Africa's most celebrated cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro [centre with placard] also joined the march with other Jews from the Cape Town community. Ahmed Kathrada, a lifetime friend of Nelson Mandela and a Robben Island prisoner, joined the hundreds of thousands of marchers for Gaza in Cape Town. Marchers walked through the centre of Cape Town. It was estimated that more than 100,000 people participated in the march although City of Cape Town authorities said that about 40,000 attended.

South Africa Toilet Protest

June 26, 2014 BBC, www.bbc.com Resist! Africa, Police, Protest, South Africa, Toilets

Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters who bared their rears during a protest over a lack of proper toilets in South Africa. Hundreds of residents barricaded a major road in Soweto protesting against bucket toilets. During the apartheid era, residents in black townships were provided with an outside bucket instead of flush toilets like those in houses in white suburbs. Protesters say the "bucket system" should no longer exist. In years following the end of white minority rule in South Africa in 1994, a government programme had aimed to replace the bucket system in informal settlements by 2007. The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says while protests about the lack of basic amenities are common in South Africa, this is a rare show of displeasure.

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